Wi-Fi & indoor exposure

Microwaving You Softly We are constantly being bombarded by radiofrequency (RF) radiation both inside and outside of our homes as a result of all the wireless technologies in our lives. This constant exposure could be affecting our health. Here's what I've learned. After moving to a new location in the city, I realized I couldn't relax and fall asleep at night. I was also starting to hear high pitched sounds. Having a degree in Environmental Biology, it occurred to me to buy an RF meter from Safe Living Technologies. The day the meter arrived, I evaluated my home and found the readings were at the Extreme level in many places in my unit. The invisible had become visible! After having consultants evaluate the property, and doing a lot of online research, I began to find solutions. As I implemented them, the RF meter told me I was making progress, and so did my sleep and the high-pitched sounds went away. I hope this message will reach you today, and you will see more clearly the risks in our modern world. Diana W. Pollock, B.A., M.C.R.P. Columbus 250 Daniel Burnham Sq., Unit 601, Columbus, Ohio 43215 (614) 754-8724

I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Rafiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding from the perspective of a family member and teacher. In my family, the presence of radiation manifests as chronic fatigue and a higher frequency of minor, distressing health issues—which occur much more often in our apartment, where a Wi-Fi router is located about 3 meters from the areas where we spend most of our time or rest. This contrasts with our health status at our rural home, where we have no router and use only smartphones, which receive a weaker signal (as the cell tower is 6 km away). I suspect that this radiation might be the cause of a drop in my pulse rate—from 62 beats per minute eight years ago to 54–56 today. Furthermore, at the college where I work—which is equipped with Wi-Fi routers—I observe an increased level of irritability among students (who often feel "bothered" for trivial reasons) compared to the classroom environment of 25 years ago. Otherwise, unlike students from 25 years ago, today’s students appear apathetic, their eyes lost as they follow images on their personal smartphones. As a health authority, the HHS must make decisions to ensure that Wi-Fi and telecommunications equipment operate according to new standards that genuinely take into account the health of users. Thank you for providing individuals and families with an opportunity to be heard.

Since 2014, I've had RF sensitivity. Not EMF so much, but I cannot stay near cell phones, walk talkies, wifi or even cordless phones without strong symptoms if exposed for too long. We do not have wifi in our house and have opted out of smart meters. For me, RF exposure feels a lot like motion sickness and causes strong brain fog with nausea and light headedness. I've been using neural re-programming to try to undo this issue as the sensitivity affects my life badly due to having to avoid these situations. I have to drive older cars that have less technology in them. How much longer can I do that for? The neural reprogramming helps. In my case, I have autonomic nervous system disorder. I get migraines. I believe the ANS disorder is the cause of the RF sensitivity.

Hello, I would like to very quickly and briefly mention my experience of being electrosensitive. I might not get another chance to do so. Below is a short summary history of my ES / EHS and please see attached a copy of a slightly extended version. Please ignore the sentence on medical reports, thank you. My experience over the years has a lot of similarities to other people when it comes to ES: stigma, isolation, ridicule, scepticism, disbelief… and so on. The most frustrating is a wide belief that it is my mental health and only an imaginary problem. I lost my home of 24½ years at Cove, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK due to the lack of help and understanding of my electro-sensitivity. In 2008 new neighbours brought wireless technology to the building (a block of 4 properties, 2 upper and 2 ground floor maisonettes). This was the first time that such technology was brought to the building and their impact on me was immediate and devastating. The worst main debilitating effect on me is very severe burning pain to my head and scalp that penetrates deep into it (blanket cover). Other burning pain is clusters of very hot burning needles shooting through me at phenomenal lightening speeds with – again – my scalp being the most sensitive area. The very first symptom to appear in June 2008 was a high-pitched whine / whistling emanating from across the central area of my brain. It is very loud, still there, can and does become elevated and it is not tinnitus. I also have other effects on me that I still suffer from. Over the years I have always noticed that whenever there are descriptions of symptoms of electro-sensitivity, only headaches are listed. Not once have I seen listed and described what I’ve mentioned above. Due to the unbearable suffering that I have had to endure (2008 – 2017), I did suffer from headaches from time-to-time because of insomnia with the lack of sleep, brought on by the continuous radiation exposure. To cut a long story short, it all became very messy with conflicts with the neighbours, all areas of my life in free fall and spiralling downwards, me being institutionalised for 7 consecutive weeks without my consent and it was against my will, having to fight off being forced to take toxic medications (anti-psychotic drugs for at least six months), 3 sinister court cases, constant potential homelessness… to name and list just a fraction of it all. My professional career was also completely ruined early on. I enjoyed the work that I did and devastated that it was cruelly taken away from me - and the lost income. Had my finances permitted, I would have attempted to sue the government. The two local politicians that I went to see at different times regarding my plight and suffering, just simply did not want to know about it. Over the years, I have compiled a more detailed summary of my ES and suffering and I’m also putting together a more detailed break down of each area and stages of what happened (separate from the summary). This includes spending £10,000.00 on shielding the property from the neighbours wireless devices' (wi-fi, DECT phones etc) radiation between October 2009 and February 2010. I also have available a number of official medical reports from the hospital professionals (including psychiatrists) that oversaw my case while I was institutionalised. Ever since this happened to me in 2008 it has been like living in a nightmare dream world, except that I am fully awake – and my nightmare journey continues relentlessly with no end in sight. Thank you. Best regards, Raymond Adams Update: I have now been homeless for over a year (1st Oct 2025) as I cannot get suitable accommodation / property. With the lack of help and understanding, it was inevitable that this would happen to me, and it has.

Since 2005 when Wi-Fi became available in my local area, I have suffered radiation sickness whenever I enter a building infested with WI-Fi antennas. This includes ALL businesses, ALL federal, state and county buildings plus ALL medical buildings. My worst symptoms are painful headaches and severe tinnitus that does not resolve for hours. Both of these conditions develop immediately upon my entering Wi-Fi polluted buildings. Of course I cannot avoid this misery since as a human being, I am forced to enter highly-polluted buildings in order to meet my needs including groceries, medical/dental consultation etc. At the same time, the latest science confirms what is making me sick is a carcinogen. Because my neighbors send their Wi-Fi into my home, I am forced to screen my home with protective materials that keep trespassing Wi-Fi out of my living space. This effort is very expensive and alienating. We need a national effort to develop fiber to communities and to all buildings so that the human environment becomes less miserable and potentially deadly for all of us. My personal Wi-Fi is cabled and I have all Internet amenities I need without Wi-Fi. Public buildings and homes CAN be made safe without loss of connectivity. HHS PLEASE HELP clean up our radiation-toxic environment for public health and safety !!!!

3A) Smart Meters, WIFI, 5G Wireless Towers 3B) My townhouse was a 4 unit building. ComEd installed 4 Smart Meters on the outside of my bedroom wall at the level of my heart & head. When they transmitted it felt like electricity going thru my chest and ears, hurting, pulsing with high pitched whistling. I noticed a sound of water rushing thru all my heating units (dirty electricity) was happening at 4 hr intervals. 3C-3D-3E) I would get a high-pitched whistling that got louder and louder. My health was really getting worse. I went to an ENT doctor to have my ears checked. Also to an Audiologist to check what I thought was a very vast difference in my tinnitus. It started from just the whistling noise getting louder, then to extremely increased very loud pulsing pain going from ear to ear thru my brain. Both specialists basically ignored what I was describing, making me believe that I was just imagining it. Every MD that I discuss this issue with seems to have no clue what EMF/RF sensitivity or poisoning even is. I ended up suffering a Progressive Stroke that has left me with an Involuntary Movement Disorder. It took 3 Neurology Specialists to determine what was happening to me. 3F) I had electricians and HVAC people out so many times they thought I was crazy and imagining it all. They could find nothing wrong. It happened usually at night, so I was not getting proper sleep. I moved to my 2nd bedroom in the townhouse to sleep hoping that would help. Only slightly better but I still couldn't sleep while there was any transmission from the Smart Meters, local 5G Towers or other's WIFI. I had to SELL my townhouse because my health was deteriorating every day. I moved to an apartment unit that was as far away from the Smart Meters in the building. I was doing ok until the 5G rolled out from the local Towers. Then I was also experiencing more problems with my neighbor's WIFI. I know my neighbor's schedules because of their WIFI usage! When the WIFI turns on, I wake up. During the day is a little easier. I have to limit my phone usage or suffer a headache and vertigo. I personally have no WIFI. I use an Ethernet cord for my personal computer, and my TV is also non-WIFI. I do not keep any devices in my bedroom. I have found some shielding from the WIFI of my neighbors with types of EMF prevention items. I sleep with a blanket, scarf, and T-shirt that have silver threading. I can tolerate small doses with my cell phone (that is never kept in my bedroom). Most nights I sleep with the scarf around my head to cover my ears & brain, and the T-shirt for my heart and internal organs. 3M) Please limit the wireless infrastructure to below whatever is happening with the 5G. Measuring and surveilling the current infrastructure and stopping the industry from going any higher with their advancements would be beneficial to the general public. Really, how fast does Internet need to be?

In 2012 I noticed symptoms related to emf exposure. Sleeping disorders, heart palpitations, confusion, memory loss. My son, 5 years old at the time, started to act different, running around, making noise and stopped talking. Later on he got diagnosed with autism. My symptoms has now exacerbated with dizziness, headaches, breathing difficulties, muscle aches that comes and goes without any connection to activity. My house is 200 meters from a cellphone tower, I noticed it 15 years ago. I worked in a huge hospital for 20 years and was exposed to Wi-Fi and wireless computers and other equipment plus other peoples cellphones. As people complained about bad connection the hospital put up more and more Wi-Fi range extenders. I stopped working there 5 years ago, I am better but as soon as I go into the city, travel by public transport or go to a sports arena or something similar my symptoms increase and I can’t manage to do anything in the coming days. If I have cold coming on, my emf symptoms multiply tenfold.

Greetings, I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding from the perspective of an individual person. Wireless radiation has affected me in a way that changed my life. For 5 years, between 2007 and 2012, i was in close proximity to a modem/router, working remotely for my employer. At approximately the 4-1/2 year point, I had a lot a symptoms, including fatigue, temporary paralysis (not being able to move or speak), full body jerks, hissing sound in my head (not tinnitus), etc. After many conventional medical tests were done, they found nothing physically wrong and suggested counseling therapy. Although the counseling helped, it wasn't everything. I learned that it is not healthy to be close to a modem/router because of electro-magnetic frequencies, etc. I wish I would have known 5 years earlier! Anyway, I had to give up my good-paying job, which led to having to sell our house, which led to renting, and eventually moving closer to family in another state for support. Reducing exposure to EMF's has helped me to avoid having so many debilitating symptoms. All people need to avoid wireless radiation, and I believe HHS should address this issue for the health & safety of every person in this country. I support HHS taking an active role in examining the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation. Questions about human health should be addressed by federal agencies with appropriate expertise in medicine, biology, epidemiology, and public health, and the experiences of individuals and families who report being affected should be considered alongside the scientific evidence. I urge HHS to carefully evaluate these experiences and the scientific evidence, identify gaps in current research, give particular attention to children and other potentially vulnerable populations, and establish appropriate federal research priorities regarding wireless radiation and public health. Thank you for providing individual persons and families with an opportunity to be heard!

For me it started right after the 2016 election and I noticed it because I had Wi-Fi setup in my bedroom from AT&T and I started getting nose bleeds in my sleep and really bad headaches and then I started losing weight and having extreme high blood pressure unexplained and I went to the hospital and I went once I would go to the hospital I would be fine and they would say you're fine there's nothing wrong with you but then as soon as I went back to my house with the Wi-Fi it would start up again and so I got rid of it and then I was fine then I moved and I ended up having a roommate and they wanted Wi-Fi and I was like against it at first but then I said okay we'll get Verizon this time same thing happened within a week and a half I started having the symptoms losing weight rapidly blood felt like it was boiling I could feel my pulse in my body so I got rid of it and that was in 2018 and I have never went back to putting Wi-Fi in my house now I do have to deal with it at work and where I worked at and Station Square Pittsburgh for some reason I would feel it at work and I would I would have to walk away and go outside and get some fresh air and when I would look at the Wi-Fi is there were about 15 in the general vicinity right by me like because all the offices going and the restaurants and now that everybody's left because it's about to get torn down we're the only ones left and I don't feel anything there anymore. It's crazy that you guys put this out as a bulletin I thought it was fake news because I was actually going to contact Tulsi gabbard because my AI had told me you should because I felt like this was a maybe a direct energy weapon aimed at me which is crazy to even think of conspiracy theories and all that but you guys were talking about energy weapons and I was politically heavy against Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election so much as I think that I was being watched because of my Facebook posts on her page of all her wrongdoings and you know she came out later and said something about how she lost the election because of Alex Jones and his followers who put all kinds of crazy stuff out on her online which was nothing but the truth but that's I'm digressing so that's my story that's when it all started happening before that I never had a problem with Wi-Fi I never noticed it and also I have to say if I have bluetooth headphones on for longer than a half hour I can feel it in my neck my arteries I can feel them getting tight or getting full or slowing down it's something it makes my blood feel like it's sludge when I'm near it. Lately if I do any kind of gaming or if I need to connect to a printer or something I will use mobile hotspot and that doesn't seem to bother me I don't seem to notice it. I do notice it with wearables such as a wristwatch and the Oculus Meta Quest.

I am submitting my comments as an individual consumer. I first experienced physical symptoms of nausea when the agency I worked for installed several desk top computers for the secretarial staff in 1990. I was in Barnes and Noble and a staff person showed me how to operate a Nook. My reaction was immediate and I felt faint and almost collapsed. As more devices that use wifi and radio frequencies have come into use I have physical reactions to cell phones, tablets, smart meters, my husband's hearing aids, Wi-Fi signals within businesses, desk top computers in groupings such as in libraries or retail electronics businesses and singly in my husband's in-home office, electric grids in floor heated concrete slabs, underground electric service feeds to residences, high tension power lines, cell phone towers, routers that broadcast Wi-Fi to multiple devices within a home or business, security systems that use Wi-Fi, ungrounded knob and tube wiring in residences, electric and hybrid vehicles that have storage batteries, and in vehicles that use Sirius radio, Bluetooth, backup cameras, and other warning devices dependent on radar and radio frequencies. The most frequent and consistent physical reaction I have to EMFs and RFs is burning sensation that first begins in my hands and feet and then migrates to the skin surface of my entire body. More extreme reactions include nausea and disorientation and shortness of breath. These symptoms will occur within 3 to 10 minutes from the time of exposure. Removing myself from the physical presence of the source does not immediately lessen the painful sensations which can persist for 30 minutes or more from the time of exposure. Grounding my body by standing barefooted on the earth or in water will help the sensations diminish within 30 to 60 minutes. My most used method of avoiding the painful effects of being in the presence of EMF, RF, and wireless radiation is to avoid the physical locations in which those forms of radiation are present. I do not fly on airplanes. I have stopped going to entertainment venues in which the audience's use of cell phones is not prohibited. I do not visit certain friends who have smart houses wired with WiFi. I cannot drive a car any newer than 2011. My husband uses cell phone outside of house and uses computer when I am not home. We had our house rewired in 2019, removing the knob and tube and replacing it with metal wrapped cable and all grounded outlets. We have shielded one side of our house from a neighbor who has a smart wifi connected house. My strategy is to avoid, put distance between my body and the source, remove myself as quickly as possible from any environment with these forms of radiation, use a copper wired land line, depend on my husband to use the computer for internet connections and communication. He is the one writing these comments for me. For many years (1990 to 2019) I did not connect the occurence of these physical symptoms with radiation sources. In 2019 we had our house evaluated by an electrian and found that I had been exposed to high levels of electromagnetic radiation due to the knob and tube wiring. Since then I have been able to correlate symptoms with sources of radiation. The steps we have taken have reduced the frequency of symptoms within our home. I have asked for neurological examinations from Kaiser Permanente and clinicians there do not subscribe to the correlation between my experience of symptoms and exposure to radiation. I am writing this in the hope that my experience will add validity to the experiences of others like me.